CSc-9618(A2) Mock Test 4(Session 2022-2023)

A2 Level
Exam Topic: Full Syllabus
Paper 4 Duration: 1.5 hours Total Marks: 75

Student Name: Date:

Open the document evidence.doc

Make sure that your name, centre number and candidate number will appear on every page of this
document. This document must contain your answers to each question.

Save this evidence document in your work area as:

evidence_ followed by your centre number_candidate number, for example: evidence_zz999_9999

A class declaration can be used to declare a record.

If the programming language used does not support arrays, a list can be used instead.

A source file is used to answer question 1. The file is called HighScore.txt

1 The text file HighScore.txt stores the players who have scored the top ten scores in a game,
in descending order of score. The file stores the 3-character name of the player, and their integer
score, in the order: player, score.

For example, the current top player in the text file:

FYI is the player name

10 000 is the score

The program:

• reads in the data from HighScore.txt

• allows the user to enter a new player name and their score
• if appropriate, inserts the new player (name and score) into the top ten
• writes the top ten players (name and score) into a new text file NewHighScore.txt

(a) The program stores the players and their scores in an array of 11 elements (10 elements to
be read from the file, 1 element to be inserted by the user).

Write a program to declare one or more arrays, as global data structures, to store the player
names and their scores.

Save your program as Question1_J2022.

Copy and paste the program code into part 1(a) in the evidence document.

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(b) The procedure ReadHighScores() opens the file HighScore.txt and reads the data into
the data structure(s) declared in part 1(a).

Write program code to declare the procedure ReadHighScores().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 1(b) in the evidence document.
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 (c) The procedure OutputHighScores() outputs all the values in the data structure(s) in the
format:

PlayerName Score

For example, the first two data items: FYI 10 000

ABC 9 092

Write program code to declare the procedure OutputHighScores().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 1(c) in the evidence document.
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(d) The main program should first call ReadHighScores() and then OutputHighScores().

(i) Write the program code for the main program.

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 1(d)(i) in the evidence document.
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(ii) Test your program.

Take a screenshot to show the output from part 1(d)(i).

Copy and paste the screenshot into part 1(d)(ii) in the evidence document.
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(e) The main program needs to ask the user to input a new player name and a score. If this score
is in the top ten then it will create a new top ten list that includes this score.

(i) Amend the main program to ask the user to input a 3-character player name and an
integer score that must be between 1 and 100 000 inclusive.

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 1(e)(i) in the evidence document.
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(ii) Write program code to declare a procedure that:

• takes the player name and score as parameters

• creates a new top ten list that includes the parameter if appropriate.

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 1(e)(ii) in the evidence document.
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 (iii) Amend the main program to call the procedure from part 1(e)(ii).

Output the contents of the array before inserting the new player name and score, and
output the contents of the array after inserting the new player name and score.

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 1(e)(iii) in the evidence document.
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(iv) Test your program by entering the player name "JKL" and the score "9999".

Take a screenshot to show the output.

Copy and paste the screenshot into part 1(e)(iv) in the evidence document.
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(f) The procedure WriteTopTen() stores the new top ten player names and scores in a text
file called NewHighScore.txt

Write program code to declare the procedure WriteTopTen().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 1(f) in the evidence document.
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2 A computer game is being developed using object-oriented programming.

One element of the game is a balloon. This is designed as the class Balloon.

The class has the following attributes and methods.

Balloon
Health : INTEGER The health of the balloon

Colour : STRING The colour of the balloon

DefenceItem : STRING The item the balloon uses to defend itself

Constructor() Initialises the defence item and colour using the

parameters
Initialises health to 100

ChangeHealth() Takes the change as a parameter and adds this to the

health

GetDefenceItem() Returns the defence item of the object

CheckHealth() If the health is 0 or less, it returns TRUE, otherwise it

returns FALSE

(a) The constructor takes the name of the defence item and the balloon’s colour as parameters
and sets these to the attributes. The health is initialised to 100.

Write program code to declare the class Balloon and its constructor. Do not write any other
methods.

Use your language appropriate constructor.

All attributes should be private. If you are writing in Python include attribute declarations using
comments.

Save your program as Question2_J2022.

Copy and paste the program code into part 2(a) in the evidence document.
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(b) The get method GetDefenceItem() returns the defence item of the object.

Amend your program code to include the get method GetDefenceItem().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 2(b) in the evidence document.
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 (c) The object’s method ChangeHealth() takes an integer number as a parameter and adds
this to the health attribute of the object.

Amend your program code to include the method ChangeHealth().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 2(c) in the evidence document.
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(d) The object’s method CheckHealth() returns TRUE if the health of the object is 0 or less (no
health remaining) and returns FALSE otherwise (health remaining).

Amend your program code to include the method CheckHealth().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 2(d) in the evidence document.
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(e) Amend the main program to:

• take as input a defence item and colour from the user

• create a new balloon with the identifier Balloon1 using the data input.

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 2(e) in the evidence document.
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(f) The function Defend():

• takes a balloon object as a parameter

• takes as input the strength of an opponent from the user
• uses the ChangeHealth() method to subtract the strength input from the object’s
health
• outputs the defence item of the balloon
• checks the health of the object and outputs an appropriate message if it has no health
remaining, or if it has health remaining
• returns the amended balloon object.

Write program code to declare the function Defend().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 2(f) in the evidence document.
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 (g) (i) Amend the main program to call the function Defend().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 2(g)(i) in the evidence document.
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(ii) Test your program using the following inputs:

• balloon defence method "Shield"

• balloon colour "Red"
• strength of opponent 50

Take a screenshot to show the output.

Copy and paste the screenshot into part 2(g)(ii) in the evidence document.
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3 A program uses a circular queue to store strings. The queue is created as a 1D array, QueueArray,
with 10 string items.

The following data is stored about the queue:

• the head pointer initialised to 0

• the tail pointer initialised to 0
• the number of items in the queue initialised to 0.

(a) Declare the array, head pointer, tail pointer and number of items.

If you are writing in Python, include attribute declarations using comments.

Save your program as Question3_J2022.

Copy and paste the program code into part 3(a) in the evidence document.
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 (b) The function Enqueue is written in pseudocode. The function adds DataToAdd to the queue.
It returns FALSE if the queue is full and returns TRUE if the item is added.

The function is incomplete, there are five incomplete statements.

FUNCTION Enqueue(BYREF QueueArray[] : STRING, BYREF HeadPointer : INTEGER,

BYREF TailPointer : INTEGER, NumberItems : INTEGER,
DataToAdd : STRING) RETURNS BOOLEAN

IF NumberItems = …………………………………… THEN

RETURN ……………………………………

ENDIF

QueueArray[……………………………………] ← DataToAdd
IF TailPointer >= 9 THEN

TailPointer ← ……………………………………
ELSE

TailPointer ← TailPointer + 1
ENDIF

NumberItems ← NumberItems ……………………………………

RETURN TRUE

ENDFUNCTION

Write program code for the function Enqueue().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 3(b) in the evidence document.

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(c) The function Dequeue() returns "FALSE" if the queue is empty, or it returns the next data
item in the queue.

Write program code for the function Dequeue().

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 3(c) in the evidence document.

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 (d) (i) Amend the main program to:

• take as input 11 string values from the user

• use the Enqueue() function to add each element to the queue
• output an appropriate message to state whether each addition was successful, or
not
• call Dequeue() function twice and output the return value each time.

Save your program.

Copy and paste the program code into part 3(d)(i) in the evidence document.
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(ii) Test your program with the input data:

"A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "H" "I" "J" "K"

Take a screenshot to show the output.

Copy and paste the screenshot into part 3(d)(ii) in the evidence document.
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